@Kavin: Thanks for listening. I love the synth engine for the Akai SS25. I wish they'd work the bugs out of the sequencer! (Yep, it's buggy, but that didn't stop me from doing an entire album with it.)
Mostly Monotron (yep, that little thing I'm holding up in front of my face). Vocal, clarinet, soprano recorder, and acoustic guitar. The percussion is also Monotron.
I decided to make this a tribute to the late, great Mick Karn after realizing…
I got tired of playing by the rules. (The album concept was using only portable instruments which I could carry in one trip.)
This track uses every functional piece of gear I own at least once. In no particular order . . . TR-606, TB-303…
Mostly Monotron (yep, that little thing I'm holding up in front of my face). Vocal, clarinet, soprano recorder, and acoustic guitar. The percussion is also Monotron.
I decided to make this a tribute to the late, great Mick Karn after realizing…
A little four-bar, 21-second joke. It's all woodwinds and a tiny bit of sampled junk percussion.
Mr. Schaum was the band teacher when I was in elementary school. Hmmm, or was it Mr. Schram? I don't recall now.
very nice album. i love synthesizers and wooden flutes. and how you have combined them so brilliantly. you inspire me to learn to play the navajo flute i bought many years ago... :)
this one is my favorite track on the album - excellent work!
Perpetual motion of things that will not stop even when we're no longer here. Strange feeling.
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"Are we human because we gaze at the stars, or do we gaze at them because we are human?" Pointless, really... "Do the stars gaze back?" Now…
I was typing out a long comment about star-gazing and meteor showers and my cat stepped out the keyboard and made it vanish. C'est la vie. This would have made a pleasant soundtrack for my meteor-gazing of the past few nights.
What with all the great Zep covers posted by Tworegs and Chris Vaisvil, here's mine, I enlisted the vocal of the man himself, thanks Reg! Also note my new fretless strat as second guitar here.
@Ed: You're welcome & thank you!
@vaisvil: It's an SCI Six Trak. Yamaha CS-series are awesome. I love what Vangelis did with his 70(?). It's all over the Blade Runner soundtrack. Killer stuff.
Seb's sleeping soundly so i had a little time to do a live in the cellar version of Squeeze box by the Who...i added the percussion after hope you enjoy....Now i can carry on the day and little more relaxed after Squeezing this on out..
Misheard lyrics?
"But (Bought?) the fucking T-Rex
In your wide velvet breast
So I somehow I know
That it's safe"
Do I have that right? You do say you "forgot all your songs / The words now are (all?) wrong." Perhaps I am hearing those last lines correctly. Hmmm.
I adore the chord motion around 1:30 to 1:40. Oh, it's part of the progression. It happens at :18 and :35 and probably elsewhere. Funny I did not hear it first time through until the fourth repetition or so!
@ACL: Thank you. I'm quite taken with it myself. I have to remind myself (lest my head get too fat & swollen) that my muse creates these, not I. I simply recreate in the real world what she's singing in my head. :) Thanks for listening.
Poetry, a Cubist’s View is a “mash” of Benjamin Smith’s Ben.improv.Jul.16.2013 on electric piano and a combination of Paul Mimlitsch’s bass clarinet and soprano clarinet improvisations: “71913bcimpx1?, “71913scimpx1?, and “71913scimpx2?. I added…
My contribution to the Aural Films Robots! compilation, available here: http://auralfilms.bandcamp.com/album/robots
From Cordwainer Smith's Instrumentality series of stories, the Manshonyagger (from the German Menschenjäger, meaning hunter of…
It begins with electronics: it must be good. ;) Oooh, I love the low, looming, video-game-noise-at-the-end sound. Nice lead, too. :) I'm all smiles. :)
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@Kavin: Thanks for listening. I love the synth engine for the Akai SS25. I wish they'd work the bugs out of the sequencer! (Yep, it's buggy, but that didn't stop me from doing an entire album with it.)
Been browsing the (many!) tracks on your album and like this one. I love my Synthstation/iPhone/iPod/music apps!
:-)
:-)
sounding (doh!)
a great confection from unlikely souding ingredients
I've got the album going as I work on homework. Sounds great!
nice one - mw
wonderful - mw
Very cool; Peter Hammill fan? DaPrato
~magnetique stripe; a quietus as final cut~
hypnotic just grabbed me and wouldnt let go.
Well Done.
this is neato! builds very nice. good mix.
What a beautiful album - mystical and inspiring. Some wonderful, powerful creations. Will be back to listen many times. Thanks!
Agree with Djork, liken the ticking wood and the flute sounds...great stuff!
Supremely inventive!
Magic man.
Wow...brilliant!! *settles in for the rest!*
very nice album. i love synthesizers and wooden flutes. and how you have combined them so brilliantly. you inspire me to learn to play the navajo flute i bought many years ago... :) this one is my favorite track on the album - excellent work!
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A pleasant "boy lost girl" ballad. Nice harmonies.
I was typing out a long comment about star-gazing and meteor showers and my cat stepped out the keyboard and made it vanish. C'est la vie. This would have made a pleasant soundtrack for my meteor-gazing of the past few nights.
Is this live timpani and steel drums? If it's not, it sure sounds that way! I like.
Very relaxing. Splendid harp work. 8)
Nice instrumental. I'm going to listen a second time right away! :)
I like the line "you talk about nothing / to fill the empty space."
One of my fav Zep tracks, nicely covered Reg & Kavin-acoustic-style. Well, there's some electric in there, but who's quibbling? Not I.
Pour me up some of your drink of choice, Reg. ;)
@Ed: You're welcome & thank you! @vaisvil: It's an SCI Six Trak. Yamaha CS-series are awesome. I love what Vangelis did with his 70(?). It's all over the Blade Runner soundtrack. Killer stuff.
Love it. 8)
Misheard lyrics? "But (Bought?) the fucking T-Rex In your wide velvet breast So I somehow I know That it's safe" Do I have that right? You do say you "forgot all your songs / The words now are (all?) wrong." Perhaps I am hearing those last lines correctly. Hmmm.
Very nice ambient track. What's the instrumentation?
I enjoyed the nice burbling flanger at the end, too.
I adore the chord motion around 1:30 to 1:40. Oh, it's part of the progression. It happens at :18 and :35 and probably elsewhere. Funny I did not hear it first time through until the fourth repetition or so!
Reminds me of some of Gilmour's post-psychedelia contributions to the Floyd. :) (I hope that's a compliment.)
@ACL: Thank you. I'm quite taken with it myself. I have to remind myself (lest my head get too fat & swollen) that my muse creates these, not I. I simply recreate in the real world what she's singing in my head. :) Thanks for listening.
@facemask93: Woah! That is a huge compliment! Thank you. Wendy Carlos is one of my massive heroes.
@Wrinkled: Thanks. It's all done on one analog synth, the classic SCI Six Trak. Three other tracks on this album were realized in the same manner. :)
I heard this on the radio just the other day. ;) Sorry, I jest. Nice piano tone. Is it a real Rhodes or synthesized?
It begins with electronics: it must be good. ;) Oooh, I love the low, looming, video-game-noise-at-the-end sound. Nice lead, too. :) I'm all smiles. :)